Half-sized replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa built to honor Galileo.

Chicago’s last original drive-in restaurant is a family-run hot dog joint that started in 1948.

This hidden gem of a garden has one of the only surviving Victorian ferneries in America.

This sculpture of a fisherman spent six years at the bottom of the Schuylkill River.

This little-known Revolutionary War fort is supposedly haunted by the ghosts of its past.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

Ant sculptures march up the side of what used to be an iconic spot in punk rock lore.

This overlooked courtyard and museum celebrate Benjamin Franklin's life and achievements.

Long before the Battle of Gettysburg occurred, dinosaurs roamed the area and left their footprints on this bridge.

This is the spot where the bloodiest battle in the American Civil War may have started.

This icon of the Atomic Age now lays dormant.

A towering bronze statue memorializes the founding father of postwar American conservatism.

This massive, ancient canal system was built using only sticks and stones.

This 4,000-acre restored grassland in northern Illinois is home to a range of native flora and fauna, from clovers to plovers to a herd of bison.

A 30-foot man on a penny-farthing bicycle rides along the banks of the Mississippi.

Comprised of Spanish war cannons, this sculpture once graced the bow of a WWI warship.

The rock on which Moll Dyer was found frozen to death is said to still bear her handprint.

Home of the physician who set the leg of John Wilkes Booth after the Lincoln assassination.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

This small museum celebrates the history of the Ouija board and its connection to the city of Baltimore.

The only public swimming pool in Baltimore open to Black Americans during segregation is now a permanent memorial art exhibit.

A miniature city within a city, complete with traffic signs, signals, and streets to teach Baltimore's youth traffic safety laws.

This grove was planted more than a century ago by the War Mothers of World War I.

A touching tribute to a local hero who made sure his neighborhood stayed clean.